It may be the Stadium Series game in Denver that is getting the headlines, but to some, mostly Old Timers, Toronto vs. Montreal is still a bit special – even these days when neither team is very good. Both the Leafs and Canadiens (as well as the other Canadian teams) are on the outside Read Article

Last week it was Minnesota and Chicago. This week it’s Colorado and Detroit. The “Stadium Series” of N.H.L. outdoor hockey games celebrates the game present and past. Both of this month’s games in the outdoor series – in Minneapolis and Denver – also featured alum games between participanting clubs in the regular season games. But Read Article

Ask modern day New York Ranger fans who was the best Ranger of all time you are likely to hear names like Rod Gilbert, Mike Richter, Brian Leetch, Ed Giacomin or Mark Messier. To those old enough or smart enough to take a wide view, many will say that person was Andy Bathgate. Andy Bathgate, Read Article

“It’s fair to say that most the excitement regarding this weekend’s Stadium Series festivities surround the alumni game, not Sunday’s latest Wild-Blackhawks clash”. So they wrote in the Star-Tribune in the run up to this weekend’s actvities in the Twin Cities. “It’s more of celebration of the North Stars than the Wild,” said Andrew Brunette, Read Article

We read and hear of Hockeyville (Kraft’s) in both Canada and the U.S.. Similarly, emblazoned across the Red Wings center ice face-off circle”Hockeytown”. “Hockeytown, USA” is a registered trademark of Ilitch Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the Red Wings, and the Red Wings will continue to use the name for the foreseeable future. But Read Article

I recently came across this headline at SI.com “Defunct Teams Should Get In on Expansion Celebration”. In it Allan Muir writes that while the Pittsburgh Penguins, St. Louis Blues, Philadelphia Flyers and L.A. Kings have special logos and plans to commemorate their 50 years (Where has the time gone?) in the N.H.L., the other two Read Article

Misha Song, recently drafted by the New York Islanders, took up hockey at the advice of a doctor at home in China who thought that the cold air would cure a nagging cough. Similarly, Tora Liu was a chubby child looking for ways to exercise indoors, away from the summer heat. According to this New York Times Read Article

It was on February 9, 1966 that the National Hockey League officially announced that it would expand from six to twelve teams. From February 7-9 the NHL Board of Governors had been mmeting at New York’s St.Regis Hotel to discuss the issue of expansion. Among those present were Charles Adams of the Boston Bruins, James Read Article